Declan Goode

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Declan Goode (4 June 1913 – 4 January 1998) was an Irish athlete and public figure. He played hurling and Gaelic football for Dungarvan and Waterford, and later served as a referee and sports administrator.

Goode began playing at Dungarvan CBS and won Waterford minor and junior titles as a youth. He helped Waterford win an All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship in 1929 and an All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship in 1931. As a senior, he was a dual player for Waterford, winning a Munster Senior Hurling Championship medal in 1938 and playing in the All-Ireland final that year, where Waterford were beaten by Dublin; he also won a Railway Cup medal with Munster in 1940. His success in football was more limited.

Off the field, Goode was a long-serving secretary of the Waterford County Board for 33 years and later became Honorary Life President, and he also worked with the Munster Council. He was a Fianna Fáil member and served on Dungarvan Urban District Council (chairman three times) and on Waterford County Council from 1974 to 1985.

Born in Dungarvan, he trained as a draper and worked in several local jobs before spending 23 years at Mulcahy's drapery store. Declan Goode died in Dungarvan in January 1998 at the age of 84.